Play Book Tag discussion

Sixteen year-old Noa had been kicked out of her parent's home after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier. Then the home for unwed mother's forces her to give up her child. She now makes a living cleaning a railway station. When strange sounds draw her to a boxcar on a side railing she finds it filled with half dead Jewish babies. Longing for her lost child Noa steals one of the babies and flees into the woods. She ends up finding refuge at the winter home of a circus and to cover their expenses must learn the flying trapeze. Alternating with her story is that of Astrid, a forty year-old Jew, from a long time circus family who's disappeared. Astrid is the star on the trapeze, in hiding with the circus. Their friendship is tense at the start and both hide secrets. As their situation gets worse they need to decide on how much they can depend on each other.

Great look at an area of occupation that I knew little about.I did feel that some of the side characters could have been fleshed out a little more.

I loved the Orphan's Tale.

I really liked this one too.

Again with the circus theme though- why is this trending right now?!

There are so many WWII books out there. I thought the setting of a traveling circus as the backdrop was one we hadn't yet seen. I liked that different aspect of the tale.